Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 7.0 release process created

Mark Wielaard
2009-09-22T12:59:06Z

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 12:18 -0700, Jim Ingham wrote:
> The gdb that Apple ships gets special treatment because it is
> codesigned by the Apple codesigning authority. I forget all the
> details, but I don't think that this treatment is available to non-
> Apple codesigned apps.

If the gdb binary as conveyed to the user depends on being codesigned by
a particular authorization key, then that should be part of the
corresponding source code that the user receives. So then the signing
authorization keys would be available for any rebuild gdb binary that
the user creates.

Cheers,

Mark